Introduction - Sabine Andresen and Martina Richter - The Politicization of Parenthood - Shifting Private and Public Responsibilities in Education and Child Rearing -- Part I     Families and the Welfare State: the Understanding of Responsibility -- Val Gillies - Family Policy and the Politics of Parenting: From Function to Competence -- Nadia Kutscher  - Families, Professionals, and Responsibility -- Anne Lise Ellingsaeter - Nordic Politicization of Parenthood: Unfolding Hybridization? -- Brid Featherstone - Can a Crisis Become an Opportunity? Gender and Care in Contemporary Ireland -- Kristen D. Nawrotzki  - Parent-School Relations in England and the USA: Partnership, Problematized -- Andreas Lange  - Family and Welfare State Change: Challenges for Education -- Nina Oelkers - The Redistribution of Responsibility Between State and Parents - Family in the Context of Post-Welfare-State Transformation -- Part II Child Rearing Between Family Care and Institutional Provisions -- Tanja Betz - Early Childhood Education, and Social Inequality: Parental Models of a "Good" Childhood -- Colette McAuley - Child Well-Being in the UK: Children's Views of Families -- Carol Vincent, Nicola Rollock, Stephen Ball, and David Gillborn  - The Educational Strategies of the Black Middle Classes -- Jutta Ecarius - Significance of Family and School, Educational Standards, and Social Reproduction in Education -- Elke Wild and Sittipan Yotyodying - Studying at Home-With Whom and in Which Way? Homework Practices and Conflicts in the Family -- Christine Hunner-Kreisel  - "Having to Keep Silent":  A Capabilities Perspective on Growing Up and the "Education Process" in a Migration Family -- Part III Meeting Parents' and Children's Needs: Professionals in Schools -- Erin McNamara Horvat  - Pushing Parents Away: The Role of District Bureaucracy in an Urban School -- Till-Sebastian Idel, Kerstin Rabenstein, and Sabine Reh - Symbolic Constructions, Pedagogical Practices, and the Legitimization of the All-Day School From a Professional Perspective: Tendencies Towards Familialization in All-Day Schools -- Nicole Börner - Parents' Perspectives on Services to Support Families in All-Day Schools -- Michael Urban, Kapriel Meser, and Rolf Werning - Parental Involvement in All-Day Special Schools for Learning Disabilities -- Regina Soremski - Educational or Childrearing Partnerships: What Kind of Cooperation is Needed at All-Day Secondary Schools? -- Natalie Fischer and Felix Brümmer - School Attachment and Performance: The Impact of Participation in Extracurricular Activities at School,- Ivo Züchner  - Daily School Time, Workforce Participation, and Family Life: Time Spent in School as a Condition of Family Life -- Sabine Andresen, Lena Blomenkamp, Nicole Koch, Martina Richter, Anne-Dorothee Wolf, and Kathrin Wrobel  - Ideas of Family and Concepts of Responsibility at All-Day School -- Contributors.